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Take everything you read on Vogons with a grain of salt. In its stock form the Deskpro is a decent retro PC already: it's an Intel BX chipset motherboard, which is compatible with handy tweaking tools such as Throttle. It has a built-in NIC. A BX board with a Pentium 3 can cover a large time span of retro games, basically all of the 90s, sometimes requiring the aid of slowdown tools.
This particular PC does have some disadvantages though. Although it's nice and small, the case is a pain to work with, opening and closing it takes some force. It lacks BIOS options, and some of the missing ones might have been helpful in fixing some issues I've run into. I can't get PC speaker beeper audio to work; in fact, I can't get the internal speaker which should also play digital audio to work at all.
I installed Windows 98 on the machine over netboot. Some more info on various hardware items:. In general a Voodoo 3 is a great retro card. Disadvantages are that it won't run some early DOS Glide games meant for the Voodoo 1, and it'll still only do bit color in 3D.
Although I mostly use the card in DOS I did find it to have sharper 2D output than the built-in ATI card, though that might just be noisier as it's integrated on the motherboard. Some threads on Vogons suggested upgrading the Voodoo 3's BIOS or messing around with its clock speeds would help, but it didn't.
I managed to fix the horizontal glitching using the mtrrlfbe tool. As the Voodoo 3 gets quite hot I decided to try the Rage again. However, at least there's no issues with VESA modes. Installing drivers allows one to activate negative horizontal sync, which on my monitor results in a much stabler image can be seen especially in the dithering pattern when the Windows shutdown dialog is on screen. Unfortunately almost all drivers exhibit issues to some extent, and ATI's version numbering scheme is confusing:.
I've uploaded my collection of drivers. These are the MIDI devices that Doom and Duke3D's music was composed on, and using one doesn't just sound way better than OPL music, it sounds the way the composer heard the tracks as well. In fact it's a shame that these games used the OPL as a general midi playback device instead of just composing directly for it; most people had an Adlib or Sound Blaster, and almost nobody had a Sound Canvas.
Now choosing a Sound Canvas is where it gets difficult. To some extent, your device needs to have the correct bugs, and the various devices' behavior is poorly documented, as is what kind of behavior games actually expect. There are game patches that fix bugs that require a specific SC version, see here. My findings:.
See also here and here and here. When buying an SC, have the seller check the firmware version for you - mapping the face plate or serial number to a firmware version is vague. It seems 'GS' branded units can have all firmware versions. I found a post on Vogons that said "ROM version 1. These units shipped with 'GS' logo faceplates, and with serial numbers greater than AC".
However, my 1. I ended up going with a 1. It's possible to upgrade the firmware to 1. Extra tip: open the unit up and check the battery, it'll probably be corroded. In time this might damage components on the unit's main board. I managed to buy a game port to MIDI cable, but couldn't get it to work for the life of me. After swapping sound cards, trying another computer, etc. Instead, this cable used 1. Instead of swapping out the resistors I soldered Ohm resisors in parallel with R1, R2.
This results in Ohm for those. R4 would require Ohm in parallel. By the way, this type of cable doesn't use a buffer for the output side but that's not that big a deal. Also, with these cables the lead marked 'out' is the PC output as opposed to the synth output and should be connected to the synth.
Later on I found other people have had issues with the same cable, in fact here somebody came to the some conclusion about the resistors. It offers a good Adlib OPL clone, it's not exact but it sounds close, some people find it superior. Nothing to worry about as such, optionally please update to the latest version of modutils. This should solve your problem.
Here's the example for this card. After the main multiplexer is loaded, its code automatically requests the top level sound card module. The options line allows you to set various configuration options before the module is loaded. Other options may be available depending on the specific card. At this time only one module does not depend on any others, thus must be loaded separately: snd-pcm1-oss. For most setups the default, system-wide configuration is sufficient.
You may change this file only for special setup. It also provides access to the pcm plugins in alsa-lib. If your card doesn't have hardware volume control e. Restart alsa, then open a music player, play a file and close the player.
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